Leftenstar and the spade

Wow! I've really enjoyed having some fun with photoshop today after a long dry spell ^^ This is some fanart for a friend's story. I just love this scene! http://neelachips.deviantart.com/#/d2r6k1c

I was having fun messing around with a more painterly approach, as well as my usual cel shading attempts. I wanted to give the impression of a slightly dream-like space, with a mad swarm of toothed creatures. It was also an exercise in dynamic poses and folds... it's not dead on but I had fun :D

Centari illustration (Warning- sketchy man parts)

So I had the excellent horse-drawing Kat to collaborate with on this illustration for Steve's story! It's still fairly loose but I quite like the feel of it! I think the character on the centaur character's back has some dodgy anatomy... but anyway. Yes. Crits welcome!

Pedipulator: take 2

My second attempt. Plus sea! It's good to be drawing again :D

I tried to get the perspective thing working. Not sure it's quite right, but I think it looks more dynamic now. Any crits?

Here's what I was working from:

"Tethered to a stone pier jutting out into the ocean, it bore the appearance of a four-legged animal, long spindly legs jutting up far beyond the main body of the craft. Kaliss supposed that they were long so that it could easily cross the ocean. One leg was frozen in the act of stepping, the wide 'foot' ready to plunge into the shallows.
The main body of the ship was more than a hundred feet long; it was mainly brass, pipework that seemed organic, almost completely covering the outer shell, as if a pipe-organ had exploded in a boat factory. They curved up from the underbelly, and a smouldering boiler was visible through the pipes, at the heart of the beast. The front of the ship was black, a rounded cockpit jutting out between the front two legs. Meanwhile the upper portion of the craft had an open deck with a brass railing running around it; the two largest funnels curved up and around the entire deck before rising over the front of the craft, as if horns on a bull. Smoke was pouring out of the funnels, and steam was venting from various safety valves; evidently the Captain had expected them, and primed his engines."

Pedipulator!

Pedipulator! :D

Everyone loves a bit of steampunk. This is an concept for Steve's ongoing novel "The King's thief". I kinda like all the steampunk gnarlyness but it somehow looks too flat to me. Any ideas on how I could make this composition more dynamic without losing too much of the detail of the thing? It's wading through water, and is supposed to be about 100m long. It would be great to get some characters in there as well perhaps. Any thoughts?